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Twitter Spam: Myth Or Reality? - Danny Sullivan at Daggle

Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 4:02 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://daggle.com)
Category: Other Social Media

Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It's like bitching that your Facebook "friends" are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then.

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from ciaran 422 days ago #

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To be fair, I've followed a couple of people (after they followed me) because they looked vaguely interesting, and then been inundated with crap - one person was even just retweeting Danny's Tweets, without referencing the fact that they were scraped.

from liamvictor 422 days ago #

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I've had a few follow me and at first glance they look legitimate but you soon find that every nth post was an affiliate link.

from eristoddle 422 days ago #

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To me, spam is anything you don't want to receive, whether it's monetized or not. I think sometimes you assume that someone isn't going to spam you and then it happens. As far as Facebook goes, I never made one friend there who didn't spam me, including my own wife. :)

from brian 421 days ago #

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Yep, really. They spam your @xxxx reply tab, which is annoying. :)

from whojaybe 421 days ago #

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Well, I like the point that was made that if you are following a lot of people and don't have many followers then you shouldn't be considered a spammer. When I first signed up, I followed almost every single blogger that I knew from various social sites and yes, they eventually followed me back but at one point it seemed like I was a spammer, but I'm not.